Tease out the subtleties hidden in Presbyterate nomenclature

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From: Deceased Languages


Traces of what was lie within what is.

Unlocked with Lead: Ancient Languages 620-623

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy 2 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (30%)
  • 1 - tough (40%)
  • 2 - very chancy (50%)
  • 3 - chancy (60%)
  • 4 - modest (70%)
  • 5 - very modest (80%)
  • 6 - low-risk (90%)
  • 7 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Lost thoughts

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Ancient Languages.

Lead: LanguagesDescription
620Is there a difference between Vesture, Investure and Investiture? All three have seemingly occupied the same place, at one time or another. Though only two appear as part of the Presbyterate...
621The Dictats of Nicator is a philosophical text, often referred to as the Pseudo-Nicatorine. There was a prince of that name too, […] But he was no philosopher, and the College of Mortality has […] taken him into its own body. Only the text remains, […]
622The warrior-nation of Skite had another name once, before it was gravely wounded. Of the one who made the wound, there is no remaining trace. Only the absence speaks, like a scar, running red throughout the centuries and the chronicles left behind.
623Drowned Mereid, though risen, was once a kingdom of the Presbyterate. Yet there are always seventy seven kingdoms, with neither interruption nor interregnum. Was another found and drafted into its place?

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